Monday, April 22, 2013

Molly has been taking 2-4 steps occasionally for a few weeks now, but has not been really walking.
Today we were babysitting a little girls who is her age (they are 1 week apart), and she is walking a little bit.
Molly saw her walking and seemed to decide right then and there that she was going to do it to.
She stood up and took about 6 steps over to the basket of toys and looked so happy that she had done it!
Then tonight she was taking many steps over and over again, so Chris started recording it.
And she walked clear across the room!

Hooray for Molly!!
She is officially our quickest walker.
Caitlin walked at 14 months, Ashlee at 14 1/2 months, and Molly is just 2 days past 13 months!

Friday, April 19, 2013

Last Saturday we drove to Logan to spend the day with my Grandma Garrett.

The girls love Grandma, but Molly did not want to sit on Grandma's lap and she was trying to GET DOWN!

And we got to visit with Aunt Shirley and Uncle Greg also (they live in the house upstairs).
The girls loved all of Aunt Shirley's dress-ups and the LOVE her doll house.
She is so nice to play with them because they talked her ear off the whole time.

Hopefully next time we visit it will be warmer weather so we can play outside and walk down to the river.

The college puts on a free day for the kids in the community every year. And we go......every year!

This years free day was last Saturday.

This year the girls participated in more of the big organized events and less of the little activities.

They enjoyed Jazz class in the dance studio.

They made a bird house and are so excited to see if a bird will actually build a nest in it this year.
Caitlin told me that it wasn't that fun building the house because "they just sat there and Dad built it." But Chris vehemently denied this. They helped hold and pound the nails. It turned out great.

Their very favorite thing was cheer camp.

They finished off the day spending a couple of hours swimming at the pool.
Molly and I joined them for lunch and we watched the Jazz dance class.

Monday, April 1, 2013

At our house this year, the girls each got an Easter basket from Chris and I, and the Easter Bunny hid some candy filled eggs outside for them to find.

I made a scavenger hunt for them to find their baskets. It took them back and forth and up and down the stairs about 6 or 7 times before finally finding their baskets in the dryer. They loved every second of it, and even put all the eggs back to repeat the hunt later in the morning.

In their baskets they had a headband, new flip-flops, a chocolate bunny, and new skirt and shirt and a personalized plate. (I had a personalized plate when I was little and I LOVED it). Molly had the shirt and skirt, plate, eggs filled with M&M's (yum!) and a watering pot.

I made the skirts using this tutorial. They wanted to try them on right away and then wore them the whole rest of the day, so I guess they liked them!

After finding their baskets they headed into the backyard to find the eggs the bunny hid.

It was a beautiful day, so we snapped a few pictures outside before going to church.